Schizacme montana

Mat-forming herb to c. 20 cm high; branches c. nodular with residual leaf-bases. Leaves slightly fleshy, spathulate, narrowly obovate to obovate or elliptic, 5–14 mm long, (1.5–)2–5 mm wide, glabrous or with a few hairs, margin flat, apex acute. Flowers solitary in upper axils; pedicels 2–20 mm long, up to 30 mm long in fruit, sparsely and minutely hairy. Calyx 3–4 mm long, tube very short; broader pair of lobes elliptic, ovate or spathulate, 1.5–2 mm wide, obtuse, narrower pair of lobes narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 1.2–1.5 mm wide, acute, ciliate at base; corolla 3–5 mm long, lobes 2–3 mm long. Capsules c. 3 mm long, 4–7 mm wide. Flowers Nov.–Feb.